Every thought about craft wheat beers?
Wheat beers are beers made mostly of wheat with ample portions of malted barley. Wheat beers are top-fermented and its flavors vary with the brewing style and the proportions of its ingredients. Wheat beers are light to medium bodied with a light amber color. They are crisp to the taste with a tinge of acidity and can be just a little bit bitter.
Wheat beers has a couple of varieties examples of which are witbierss, weissbier and other wheat beers such as American Wheat beer.
Belgian Wheat Beers
Witbierss (WIT)
Witbierss or what is also called as Belgian white beer because of their pale, amber color , is the Belgian version of wheat beer. It is brewed with different flavoring such as orange peel and coriander and also other spices and herbs called “gruit” along with its main ingredient of wheat. Witbierss are initially hazy but when they are cooled, its color change white. Witbierss has a bit of a sour taste mainly because of the lactic acid that is present.
German Wheat Beers
Weissbier
Weissbier is the German version of wheat beer brewed by mixing an equal proportion of wheat and barley malt. There are many types of Weissbers and some of the most common are Hefeweizen which is brewed unfiltered, Kirstallweizen which is filtered during the brewing process to remove the yeast and the wheat proteins which gives it a cloudy appearance. Dark weissbiers usually has high alcohol content compared to the light-colored ones.
Dunkelweizen
Dunkelweizen is another German wheat beer that is similar to weissbier except that it is more darker in color with a softer and more malty taste. The dark color of dunkelweizen is due to its lightly roasted pale malt.
Weizenbock
Wiezenbock is a beer brewed weizen style except that it is 50% stronger compared to weissbiers and dunkelzeizen with 7% alchohol content. Wiezenbocks has intense spice and fruit flavors with a little taste of alcohol.
Berliner Weisse
Berliner Weisse is a sour wheat beer that is very tart. It is often drank with a small slice of lemon and it has a low alcohol content which is mostly below 3 percent. Berliner Weisse are also light-bodied.
American Wheat beer
American Wheat beers are combinations of American Ale and German Weizen style beers. It’s a drinkable, balanced and smooth beer with a cloud color and a bit of tartness on is texture.
Some famous Wheat Ales are New Glarus Crackd Wheat Ale, Three Floyds Gumballhead, Flossmoor Station Rot Geist American Red Wheat, Southern Tier Heavy Weizen, Calumet Wheat, Sixpoint 8 Days O’ Wheat, Sixpoint Apollo Wheat, Sixpoint Mason Black Wheat